Mental health success is a very different thing to traditional success.

I am uncomfortable with that. But she fights. And so. So will I.

what is truly my best and what I think my best should be or what I would like my best to be are not one and the same

this is trauma

opening up about some of the really raw and hard “stuff” that is our story and our “stuff”

The shock of discovering you’re not where you think you are and actually the path is much longer and deeper. And it involves bridge building

Turmoil: For me it feels like waves. Powerful, pounding, engulfing waves.

Often growth feels like going in circles. But, if you look carefully, there’s a new dance emerging …

The picture is not always clear. And sometimes there are giant big barriers in the way. Mind barriers …

Finding some fun looking for self in a very crappy day

A fantastic, easy to use grounding and self check in tool that does not require skilled drawing

Getting through a tough fortnight of anniversaries in a way that feels healing.

Revisiting a tool we used to regulate and say what we couldn’t speak. On that day it calmed. Today it empowered.

We got triggered. And it felt like this.

new growth on old wounds hurts. but I’ll keep dressing them and I won’t let them get infected

Some days I just ache … and so I sit through layer upon layer I can’t set my mind to … and then

we spent some time pulling ourselves apart and facing demons and hiding in caves and … we got a little further …

Some days the demons inside scream louder

some days the world feels heavy, doesn’t it?

When “it’s ok to feel how I am today” has become my shackles, it is no longer ok.